The Tavisi tribe fell to the northwest of where they had met, about two kilometers away, but as the saying goes, two kilometers in a straight line on the mountain was a long way to go.
An hour later, after crossing a small hill, a taller and more vast mountain appeared in front of them.
Fortunately, they did not need to climb the peak again. The Tavisi tribe was halfway up the mountain.
In the Algonquin language, Tavisi meant those who lived in the middle of the hill, and their tribes generally built villages on the mountainside.
Li Du looked at the village from afar. It occupied a large area and was built in a circle around the mountainside. The houses on both sides were made of stone, like fortresses. The houses in the middle were made of wood, surrounded by fences. They were closely packed together, and there were about a hundred of them.
The Native American families were very large. They did not have a family planning program and were proud of having more children, so every family had a large population. A house might have more than ten people living in it, so the Tavisi tribe had more than a thousand people.
Li Du asked for details, and the cheerful Catulom said that they had a total of 1,400 people, 500 of whom were warriors, and that they were the largest tribe around.
The road here was easy to walk on. The Tavisi had been running this tribe for half a century and had built a large number of mountain roads. They could walk along the mountain roads.
As they went up, there were stone towers and caves on both sides of the road, with some big Native American men standing guard inside.
Facing the sun, Li Du found reflective spots in the caves, and he guessed that someone inside was watching with binoculars.
There was a checkpoint set up on the mountain road, and a big man squatted on the tower and looked down, shouting at them in Algonquin.
Sadisram also responded loudly in Algonquin. Hearing his words, the big man waved his hand, and the railing made of thick tree trunks was pulled up, and they officially entered the tribe's territory.
Up the mountain road, there was a straw hut with a model of a wolf in it. The wolf stared and bared its teeth, standing on a rock in a pouncing position, looking quite powerful.
When she found the wolf, Ah Ow jumped up at once. She stretched out her neck at the wolf and howled, "Awoo, awoo, awoo!"
Li Du saw that it was a specimen made of wolf skin and scolded, "Stop howling, what are you afraid of? It's fake, it won't move! "
Ah Ow closed her mouth and wagged her tail, then looked around with a guarded gaze.
Little Horse laughed. "It's not this wolf that it's afraid of, but the people of this tribe. The people here killed its own kind and skinned it to make this thing. That's what scared it."
While no one was looking, Ah Bai crawled out of Li Du's backpack and trotted into the straw shed. It quickly climbed onto the wolf's back.
Seeing this, several of the Native American guards roared anxiously. They were speaking in Algonquian, which Li Du could not understand. However, he knew that Ah Bai had provoked them, so he quickly waved for it to get down.
Sadisram went up to stop the guards, and Catulom also shouted in Algonquian. Hearing his words, the guards backed away with a puzzled expression and then looked at Ah Ow.
Ah Ow gave them a sidelong glance. What the hell are you looking at? Do you want to skin me alive? Come and try me if you have the guts!
Andes the hawk was scared out of its wits. It flapped its wings and squawked, but no matter how hard it tried, it could not fly. For a moment, Li Du was flustered and had to call Ah Bai while pulling the hawk behind him.
Catulom laughed again when he saw this. He shouted, "Sir, you have so many pets. They're so interesting. I like them."
Li Du responded with a wry smile. He wondered if he had spoiled these naughty children too much. In fact, when they were first adopted, most of them were timid, but later, for some reason, they became naughty one by one.
Take Ah Bai, for example. When he first adopted him, he was a little foodie. At other times, he was very timid and afraid of everything. Now he had become a naughty monkey, even more suicidal than Ah Meow!
A Native American guard took out a walkie-talkie and said a few words. Soon, several people appeared at the entrance of the hillside village above.
A big Native American man in front saw them and shouted, "Sadisram, have you found the supply box? Where is it? "
Sadisram said coldly, "That helicopter is not used by the government to airdrop supplies. I didn't find the supply box."
The big Native American laughed contemptuously. "Do you have the face to come back? How long has it been since you last found food? "
Sadisram said, "I didn't find the supply box, but I found some friends. What's wrong with bringing friends back?"
The big man suddenly became fierce and said, "Friends? You mean these guys with you? Are you talking about this wolf, this lynx, and this monkey? "
Li Du frowned. This guy was a bit insulting.
Catulom waved his fist and roared, "Hakatulama, shut your mouth, don't talk nonsense, don't insult our friends!"
The big man, Hakatulama, said coldly, "I didn't insult them. I insulted you two useless cowards."
"You want to fight?" Catulom took a small crossbow out of his pocket and aimed it at him.
Hakatulama puffed out his chest proudly, pointed to his heart, and said, "Come on, shoot here, shoot me!"
Catulom's face turned red. Li Du stopped him and said, "Didn't God Mohican teach you? You have to be calm when facing the enemy. "
He looked at him and said, "Hello, sir, it seems that we are not welcome here?"
Hakatulama looked at him critically and said, "Of course, our tribe does not welcome any stranger, especially when you are not our fellow Indians. Of course, we do not welcome you."
There was a sneer on Sadisram's face as he stood silently, watching the scene with cold eyes.
When Li Du noticed this, he felt a little uncomfortable. This guy was using him as a tool!
Big Horse also saw this and came up to him and whispered, "Boss, we have no allies here."
Thinking of what had happened before, Li Du quickly figured out what was going on.
At first, Sadisram didn't want to take them back to the tribe. Obviously, he knew that bringing them back to the tribe would be troublesome. He had enemies in the tribe who would attack him.
But the appearance of Ah Ow changed his mind. He realized that Ah Ow's identity as the Holy Wolf had value, and asked Li Du to tell him that they had been saved by the Holy Wolf.
The man named Hakatulama didn't know about the Holy Wolf, and Sadisram didn't say anything about it. Obviously, he was happy to see the other party clash with Li Du and his party.
Li Du felt uncomfortable. He had thought that the other party invited them to the tribe to express his gratitude, but now it seemed that this was not the case. These Native Americans were actually playing tricks on them.
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